Globalization, Death, and the Fearful Extremist by Dr. Gerry CoulterIn early January one of Pakistan’s most senior liberal politicians, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, was shot 27 times by one of his own bodyguards. The murderer then calmly placed his gun on the ground and waited for the police to arrive. The

Bernie Ecclestone and Formula One by Dr. Gerry CoulterBernie Ecclestone, who turns 80 this week, sits atop Formula One racing – one of the few remaining spectacles in the world where drivers with amazing reflexes and an incredible instinct for speed pilot land-based vehicles which run on jet fu

Immanuel Wallerstein's Seductive Fiction by Dr. Gerry CoulterImmanuel Wallerstein, who turns 80 this week, is the author of one of the grand theories of the twentieth century. What set Wallerstein apart as a thinker was his macro-historical approach to the present. Not long after Walter Rostow’s

Reflections on Wole Soyinka and the Cesspit of Free Speech by Dr. Gerry CoulterIt is not every month that a Nobel laureate in literature comes out against freedom of speech so perhaps we should give Wole Soyinka his due. In an interview with Tunku Varadarajan at the Jaipur Literature Festival last month, Soyinka said

Remembering Jean Baudrillard by Dr. Gerry Coulter“A friend has died. The death of a friend finds its own justification a posteriori: it makes the world less liveable, and therefore renders his absence from this world less painful. It alters the world in such a way that he would no longer ha

Obama's True Corruption by Dr. Gerry Coulter“The emergence of the silent majorities must be located within the entire cycle of historical resistance to the social. Resistance to work of course, but also resistance to medicine, resistance to schooling, resistance to secur